Appeal No. 2004-2267 Page 8
Application No. 09/651,184
row, "the server places the client on a waiting list to obtain the lock." Id. at ll. 45-46. "If
the client is waiting for the lock for more than a predetermined period of time, the server
may remove the client from the waiting list and send an error message back to the
client." Id. at ll. 47-50. For our part, we are unpersuaded that Nori's determining
whether a client has waited to obtain a lock for more than a predetermined period of
time teaches the claimed reviewing of time stamps corresponding to the names of data
files stored in a temporary directory to determine if a predetermined time delay has
passed.
The second passage of the reference relied on by the examiner discloses that
"[t]o ensure that a particular client sees a consistent view of the database, the server
sends to the client data from a particular 'snapshot' of the database. A snapshot is like
a timestamp. A snapshot of the database reflects all changes committed to the
database as of a particular point in time, and no changes committed after that point in
time." Col. 7, ll. 25-30. "When a client reads LOB data, changes that have been made
to the LOB data must be removed from the LOB data before the LOB data is supplied to
the client if the changes were made after the snapshot time being used by the client."
Id. at ll. 30-34. For our part, we are unpersuaded that Nori's removing of changes made
to LOB data after the snapshot time being used by a client, teaches the claimed
reviewing time stamps corresponding to the names of data files stored in a temporary
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